Children of Men

I’m going to write about a movie called “Children of men”. This is a film based in a book of the same name and written by P.D. James, who is a British writer. The story occurs in a futuristic context, specifically in London 2027, where the world has been ravaged by wars, nuclear terrorism, contamination and mass suicide. Also the mankind has lost the capacity of childbearing after of a great flu pandemic in 2008. On the other hand, Britain has become in an authoritarian government where the police forces detain to immigrants. In this context Theo (Clive Owen) - who is a former activist-, is contacted for a militant immigrants' rights group known as the “Fishes” to carry an immigrant female to be pregnant to “Human Project”, which is a scientific group dedicated to find a cure for the infertility. To achieve his objective, Theo must to escape of the repression of the British government and the political activists, who trying to get the baby. Particularly I like this movie because reflect nicely the hope in front to the wickedness and wreckage of the humanity. 

                                         

The last blog

 Particularly I think that the blogs were very useful for my formation in this language, I could to strengthen a sphere of application in the English like the writing and even the reading. Likewise at the time to write in the blogs I had the opportunity of increasing my vocabulary through of the   internalizing of the new words that I used in my blogs. Accordingly I feel that I had progress on the writing and reading, but on the other hand, I feel that I hadn’t the same results specially in speaking, that is a sphere of application very deficient in my case.

About to include new contents in the future, really I don’t know, for my part I think that to write in the blogs and adding comments to blogs of the other classmates, it is a very good idea to practice what we have learnt in the class. Perhaps in the future we could to write essays about to topics of our fieldwork, in order to continue strengthening our knowledge in the English.

In the future I don’t know about what I want to write in the blog, but anything would be very interesting…

    

Conservation Bioantropological Human

My favorite subject this year is Conservation bioantropological human, which is a subject of applied archaeology.  In this class we don’t have just theoretical lessons, but also practice lessons in the laboratory where we have the opportunity to work directly with human remains. Particularly we must to micro-trenching a compressed earth block that had human bones.

The main contents are associated to the optimal conservation of human remains, learning about the environmental agents and factors that could to affect -or not- the bones material (post-deposits process). In this way we learnt -for example- about the ground conditions appropriate for the better conservation. Likewise we are learning about the chemical and biological components of the bones and the names of these.

Particularly I like the subject because allows me to expand my knowledge in the physic anthropology area. Furthermore I think that to complement the theoretical lessons with the practice in laboratory, allows us to get experiences for our occupational future. Also in this subject I could to meet places that before I hadn't visited, like the “Patio 29” in the General Cemetery. 


                                        

A Simpatic Llama

This photo was taken by me, while I was in Talabre during a fieldwork (in June) for the subject Andean Cultures. The picture shows a llama in a corral as was fed for a farmer. I like the photo because this llama reminds me that the fieldwork was much more interesting and motivating than I expected. While I was in this place, I had the opportunity to know a reality completely different to lived for me in the city, where I could know about the people that living in this place and its livelihoods. In this point I achieved a rapprochement to the animals of the town, among them the llamas with which I had good and bad moments. In this way I had to run for my life after being chased and attacked for a group of llamas and, on the other hand, the next day I could touch a llama without being attacked. Finally I can say that the journey was very exciting.